Originally posted by RivingtonRebel
Would the world work together to stop it?
Would we try to shoot it with a rocket?
Would we let it fall?
What would we do?

There wouldn't be much we could do scenarios like that of "Deep Impact" and "Armageddon" aren't actually feasible...the governments would prepare by
secretly building bunkers to improve chances of human continuity but logically it wouldn't be public knowledge until the last day(prevent panic). The
governments would inform each other but that's as far as the working together would go.

Originally posted by RivingtonRebel
Would the world work together to stop it?
Would we try to shoot it with a rocket?
Would we let it fall?
What would we do?

I'd do a snoopy dance.
We need a big rock from space to give us a good rattle such we might actually start funding more into our space programs.

A large enough crater or series of craters from a big enough rock breaking up and causing multiple impact events, so long as it wasn't an extinction
level event, methinks would give us a good slap.

I'd keep my fingers X'd that most of the impact affected area would be the Middle East -
News Headlines: Middle East, Central origin of Judeao-Christian-Muslim faiths; destroyed by act of God.
Maybe someone would take the hint.
Plus, such a thing might make all that Middle Eastern oil inaccessible, possibly sparking more interest in alternatives.

There was such a rock several years ago and we did destroy it. The debris rained down for months. Even set a village on fire in India. We knew it was
coming and then "POOF" it was gone. No announcement, no press, no word. It was just gone. And in it's place were thousands of meteors raining down
on Earth for months afterwards.

Aussie Bloke knew about it. He warned us. But the real version of SG-1 did it's thing and saved us all.

i guess it would depend on how much pre warning anyone of consequence had, and wether they had the resources to do anything about it.
if it was a case of a fast moving object that appeared out of no where from a corner of the sky they hadnt tracked. then i guess for the most part we
would be in trouble and totally reliant on wether they do anything about surviving, or wether the just save those they think are important.

a meteor / asteroid impact depends on alot of things.. size. speed. and most importantly what its made of.. as you may notice, alot of small incoming
objects often burn up. its often rare anything actually acheives an impact, and usually its too small to be more than a small puff of dust.. tho may
kill u if you were unlucky enough to be in the line of it..

not to say we havent had huge impacts before.. theres plenty of notable large cratars around the world. tho no doubt older than BC.

It all depends also on where it impacts.. for instance.. a giant crash into the pacific ocean would most likely wipe out the majority of the countries
just from the tsunami force alone... if not the shockwave, and then you would have the fire, and earth that was blown up.

of course having a big bunker in a mountain would likely survive a flooding and such, tho they can only accommadate a certain amount of people for a
certain amount of time. and you can bet you number 1 billion on the lottery list for a chance.

no our best chance would be that somehow the moon would be in a position to take the impact, or perhaps deflect it some how, but we would probably
still likely then get a rain of chunks from the moon also, if not a complete destabilisation of orbit and the moon hits us.

either way, for the most part. human kind is stuffed in any event.. our only real hope would be to escape to space, watch the world burn, wait for it
to settle, and then try to land and recover.

I think the official advice is too put your head between your legs. that way its easier to kiss your bum goodbye ;0) seriously though if it was
really close they couldnt do a lot without risking spreading the problem out i think they would give out pretend advice so we can feel like we have a
chance of surviving and are kept busy whilst the leaders get somewhere safe if there is suh a place. like they used to advise painting your windows
white and hide behind a door if a nuke went off ;0)

youre assuming they would even tell you. the PTB would discreetly evac to their bunkers and cave hideaways and hunker in until we are dead. one minute
youll be eating frosted flakes, the next the sky turns black and then youre kaput. the sky turning black is all the warning 99.99999% of us will get.

It was excellent advice get in a sack or sleeping bag take your doors off their hinges and hide behind them, dont come out because of the fallout and
paint the windows white. so basically label your house as one of the occupied bag yourself up and put your bodies tidy in the corner and wait to die
so much easier for the clean up. much like convincing us to put our head between our legs on a plane a if it was for our safety when really it was to
protect our teeth for identification. not that im complaining perfectly sensible thing to do our last moments have a bit of hope and we make the
cleanup a bit easier for people who were far enough away.

I love these types of questions, because they ask those being questioned, one thing, but in reality the questions actually masks a more basic
questions, which in this case is: What would you do, if you were faced with your own mortality and the mortality of those around you.

To that questions I would simply answer: pick up a dog from a shelter who has had a particularly troubled life and grab him some quality dog food,
grab my favorite beverage, my favorite foods, find a natural scenic view (like a valley, canyon, beach or whatever) and wait for the coming Armageddon
with my canine friend. No fooling.

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